Are there any studies or data sets out there that compare high school GPA with attendance rates in college? I keep hearing claims these are connected but I'm not so sure. Whenever I ask for data, nobody has anything except anecdotes.

According to my fitness watch, every semester once classes are over my average sleep score jumps by about 50% and stays there...until classes start again.

It's unreal how many tasks I can blast through when I don't have grading or course prep to deal with.

🎙️ #Podcast rewind! How do you assess your courses?

Robert Talbert and David Clark chat about #alternativegrading practices and their book, Grading for Growth, on the Social Learning Amplified podcast.
Listen: hubs.li/Q02tFBvT0

#Ungrading #AlternativeGrading #Perusall

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Well, 98% of faculty in my experience believe they should be extensively consulted on every decision under the sun, so yeah.

Interesting look at university grading from the student side.

stanfordreview.org/untitled-3/amp/

Five years ago I would have strongly disagreed with most of this. But today, app and ad makers are so good at hijacking kids' attention that I'm tend to agree. Especially this: 'A good rule of thumb might be: If the activity is no different on screen or paper, use paper.'

Hot take for Friday: All courseware and course documentation developed by faculty at public universities -- syllabi, exams, software, all of it -- should be required to be open-sourced and published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. #HigherEducation

Commenter makes the point that a lot of students in first/second years struggle to self-evaluate and so they 'win' with traditional assessment. Wasn't exactly what I was referring to but this is a very important point, and a major issue with ungrading.

Indeed🤔

Yes yes confusion is what thinking feels like

If anybody thinks alternative grading results in a loss of 'rigor' I'd like to set you up with some of my students to discuss whether *they* think my system makes it easy to slide by.

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When I was on a committee to study honor codes, the rule of thumb in the literature about this was a 20/60/20 split in the population. 20% will never cheat, 20% will always cheat, and you can only hope to affect the behavior of the 60% in the middle with policy.